Get The Ball Rolling! [Alex]

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[style=width: 450px; padding: 10 25; background: #666611; border: 1px dashed black; font-size: 11px; font-family: courier new; font-weight: bold; color: 66DD11; text-align: left;]quibbledWhimsy [QW] began pestering zeusAmmon [ZA] at --:--

QW: Alex!
QW: I heard you were in the medium!
QW: What's it like in there?
QW: I bet it's really neat!
QW: Like being inside a video game.
QW: Since it is, you know, a video game!
QW: Only more real!
QW: Oh, and hi, I'm alive!
QW: Just got my internet running again, it was out for a while.
QW: So much has happened while I've been away!
QW: There are even aliens, I mean real aliens!
QW: I think, anyway, though Venn said they might just be trolling.
QW: Human trolling, not trolls, which they are.
QW: Anyway I think we should make our arrangements.
QW: You're supposed to get me in, after all!
QW: Soon, anyway.
QW: Any notes for when that happens?

[alexander]

ZA: I am.
ZA: The game creates an area specialized for each person.
ZA: For me it's a barren wasteland with frozen gears in the sky.
ZA: And swords planted in the ground.
ZA: The aliens are what you make of them.
ZA: Moving on.
ZA: I'll just deploy the devices.
ZA: And I'll handle the prototyping.
ZA: As prototyping affects the enemies.
ZA: I should warn you.
ZA: Lela prototyped my Metal Gear.

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[style=width: 450px; padding: 10 25; background: #666611; border: 1px dashed black; font-size: 11px; font-family: courier new; font-weight: bold; color: 66DD11; text-align: left;]QW: Specialized for each person?
QW: Then I can already see what mine will be.
QW: Now I'm looking forward to it!
QW: One giant garden!
QW: That will be so awesome!
QW: Er.
QW: Prototyping, what's that?
QW: And how does it affect the enemies?
QW: Like, your Metal Gear.
QW: Should I be worried?

[alexander]

ZA: Prototyping changes them.
ZA: You can prototype powerful things that result in stronger enemies.
ZA: But yield better experience.
ZA: The inverse is also true.
ZA: As for whether you should be worried.
ZA: It's a Metal Gear.
ZA: They've got working rail guns.
ZA: So your call, I suppose.

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[style=width: 450px; padding: 10 25; background: #666611; border: 1px dashed black; font-size: 11px; font-family: courier new; font-weight: bold; color: 66DD11; text-align: left;]QW: Metal Geeeeeeeear!
QW: Hehe
QW: Sorry, I'm sure it's really bad.
QW: I mean rail guns are bad.
QW: That is fact.
QW: What would you recommend prototyping?
QW: I have plants.
QW: I have a loooooot of plants!
QW: Maybe a pumpkin!
QW: Then they'll have rail guns and stalks!
QW: Or they'd be orange and bulbous, and barely able to aim their rail guns!
QW: I mean, what other purpose does prototyping have? Why not use a dead cat or something just to nerf the enemies?

[alexander]

ZA: As I said.
ZA: The inverse is true.
ZA: You can indeed lower their capabilities.
ZA: This however, lowers how much experience they yield.
ZA: Meaning we level up much slower.
ZA: I'm sure I will think of something.
ZA: Should be balanced, anyway.

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[style=width: 450px; padding: 10 25; background: #666611; border: 1px dashed black; font-size: 11px; font-family: courier new; font-weight: bold; color: 66DD11; text-align: left;]QW: Oh gosh.
QW: I just realized.
QW: That means I'm going to be fighting against guys with rail guns.
QW: I really hope they're a terrible shot!
QW: Or whatever you do to nerf them is ingenious.
QW: I don't exactly want to be rail gun'd!
QW: So okay.
QW: You're in a place with frozen gears and swords.
QW: Fighting guys with rail guns.
QW: Aside from the possibility of dying in a horrible and gruesome manner.
QW: That sounds awesome!
QW: I can't wait to get in there myself!

[alexander]

ZA: It'll be a real blast for you, I'm sure.
ZA: Your obsession with plants will undoubtedly make your area a cakewalk.
ZA: Here it's a bit different.
ZA: Though it's not all bad.
ZA: I can use the swords planted in the ground.

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[style=width: 450px; padding: 10 25; background: #666611; border: 1px dashed black; font-size: 11px; font-family: courier new; font-weight: bold; color: 66DD11; text-align: left;]QW: Well I mean.
QW: If my place is all plants.
QW: I'm pretty mean with a vine, nawmsayin'?
QW: Sorry, been talking to BS a lot lately.
QW: She's real chill and that can rub off on someone!
QW: But I mean if my place is like a giant jungle or forest
QW: Then I'm basically in my own garden!
QW: I'll be able to prance right through there!
QW: But that's the problem with rail guns is that they're really powerful.
QW: And the trees won't really stop them!
QW: Cool that you have all those swords though!
QW: I bet your inventory is full of them! Like a bajillion swords!

[alexander]

ZA: Was full of swords.
ZA: I used them on my bosses.
ZA: Which I should warn you.
ZA: Your first bosses.
ZA: They are what is essentially the Incredible Hulk with rail guns.
ZA: So be prepared to have a bit of a tough fight.
ZA: Maybe.
ZA: If you're a high enough level on your echeladder.
ZA: You shouldn't have much trouble.

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[style=width: 450px; padding: 10 25; background: #666611; border: 1px dashed black; font-size: 11px; font-family: courier new; font-weight: bold; color: 66DD11; text-align: left;]QW: So why don't you refill it with swords?
QW: Sounds like they come in handy.
QW: Or did you use them all?
QW: Uh.
QW: Wait.
QW: Incredible Hulk with rail guns.
QW: That doesn't sound like fun!
QW: Or, well, it does from a video game standpoint.
QW: Especially since this isn't just another pointless beat 'em up where the hulking enemies just take more hits to kill.
QW: I'm sure I can figure this out!
QW: I'm a video game all-star, remember?
QW: Besides, the bigger they are the harder they fall~!
QW: Hopefully onto their rail guns!
QW: Which then fire!
QW: Through them!
QW: And let me win!
QW: Hehe!

[alexander]

ZA: Right.
ZA: They don't appear to be too smart.
ZA: At least not for me.
ZA: But the rail guns are on their shoulder.
ZA: There is no impaling.
ZA: Really.
ZA: I will just continue and see what happens.
ZA: Maybe write a walkthrough.
ZA: Maybe that'll help.

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[style=width: 450px; padding: 10 25; background: #666611; border: 1px dashed black; font-size: 11px; font-family: courier new; font-weight: bold; color: 66DD11; text-align: left;]QW: Ew, no!
QW: I'm a professional gamer here, Alex!
QW: Walkthroughs are for newbies and dads who want to impress their children!
QW: I'll figure things out on my own, thank you very much!
QW: Like a real gamer!
QW: Because that's what I am.
QW: That's why I have this monster of a computer!
QW: Crysis was a joke for my system!
QW: Even when it was new!
QW: And used as trial by fire for gaming computers!
QW: I actually made a point of running three copies at once!
QW: Impossible to play, mind you.
QW: But the graphics were still gorgeous in all three!
QW: No frame rate drop whatsoever!
QW:

[alexander]

ZA: If graphics are your concern.
ZA: Then I, you won't be disappointed.
ZA: It's like the Sims, only real life and deadly.
ZA: II, then you probably won't last long.
ZA: Focus on staying alive.
ZA: Not making sure your enemies are pretty.

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[style=width: 450px; padding: 10 25; background: #666611; border: 1px dashed black; font-size: 11px; font-family: courier new; font-weight: bold; color: 66DD11; text-align: left;]QW: Alex!
QW: That was just an example!
QW: Just to let you know how hardcore I am when it comes to gaming!
QW: I mean how else can I display that fact?
QW: Than to gloat about my machine?
QW: The days of high scores are long gone, after all.
QW: I don't care what the enemies look like!
QW: I'm going to be the best!
QW: Which means better than you, by the way.
QW: Hehe. <3